Our Academic Enrichment time is daily from 12:00-1:00pm. This time is specifically designed for our Kindergarten students to join together as a group to work and progress through the advanced materials and lessons in the Montessori primary curriculum. Throughout the school day in their classroom they are still working individually with their classroom teacher on these and other materials at their level.
Reading Group (Junior Great Book Program):
In March we will begin our focused reading groups for our kindergarten students. Kindergarten students are meeting with Ms. Faith on Monday and Wednesday mornings. Please review the information sent home. There will also be work sent home on Wednesdays and will need returned the following Monday for their next lesson.
2/29: Geometric Shapes continued/ Vowel and Consonants
- Introduction to geometric shapes and constructive boxes
- Geometric cabinet
- Hexagon, rectangle and blue rectangle boxes
- Creating triangles, rhombus, trapezoid, parallelogram, squares, etc.
3/7: Parts of Speech/ Grammar
- Introduction to nouns and their rules (name of a person, place, thing or idea)
- Introduction to verbs and their rules (action word or something you do)
- Vowels, consonants and their rules
- Using worksheets, diagramming sentences and sandpaper letters
3/14: Parts of Speech/ Grammar
- Introduction to the article (a kind of adjective always used with and gives information about a noun)
- A definite article is the word “the”
- An indefinite article is the word “a” or “an”
- Using worksheets, diagramming sentences and sandpaper letters
3/21: Articles
- Rules of the articles
- Worksheets, grammar symbols, diagramming sentences
3/28-4/1: SPRING BREAK (school resumes Monday, 4/4)
Synonyms of the week
2/29: WET, damp, moist, soggy, drenched, soaked
3/7: HEALTHY, hearty, athletic, sound, strong, fit
3/14: SICK, weak, unhealthy, ailing, infected, frail
3/21: MEAN, selfish, unkind, malicious, hurtful
Sight Words
2/29: he
3/7: go
3/14: we
3/21: in
Things to do at home this month to reinforce our themes:
- Look for our words of the week when reading a story, cut out pictures beginning with the letters of the week.
- Practice using the different synonyms of the week in a sentence together.